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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What kind of life did the first maiden offer to Heracles? (pg. 116)
What kind of life does the second maiden offer to Heracles? (pg. 116-117)
What dangerous errand does Heracles immediately face after making his choice about which maiden to follow? (pg. 118-119)
By what means does Heracles successfully skin the lion? (pg. 119)
How did Heracles come to be in the good graces of King Creon so as to be permitted to marry the king’s daughter? (pg. 119-120)
What demand does Zeus grant to his wife Hera? (pg. 121)
What terrible thing happens to Heracles because of Hera’s hatred for him? (pg. 122-123)
What did the oracle of Delphi tell Heracles he must do now because of “the terrible things he had done”? (pg. 123-124)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
Why did Heracles choose the more difficult path of following Virtue? (pg. 116-118)
Why is it significant that as soon as Heracles made his choice to follow virtue he immediately had to fight a lion? (pg. 118-119)
Why does Hera remind Zeus of his oath? (pg. 121)
Who proves to be a true friend to Heracles in this story and what demonstrates this to be so? (124)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
It is evident that Hera’s behavior towards Heracles is unjust and despotic. If the gods themselves are unjust, is there any way to have true justice? What is necessary for justice to exist and be practiced?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read Psalm 33:5; Psalm 119:68; Matthew 5:48; and Mark 10:18. How is Yahweh different from Zeus and Hera or any other Greek god?
In Micah 6:8 the prophet tells believers that God “has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” How are we to know what is good so that we may do it? Feel free to use other Scripture passages in giving your answer?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Virtue, Vice, Courage, Despotism, Deception